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859910

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in local authority funding for children's services.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	904289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the local government finance settlement. Over the Spending Review period, councils will receive more than £200 billion for local services.</p><p>In February, I announced that annual local government funding will rise in real terms to £45.6 billion by 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 12/03/2018 17:51:19 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

856996

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Tax: Empty Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for measures to allow councils to charge a 100 per cent council tax premium on empty homes will come into force.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	131508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has confirmed that it will bring forward measures to double the 50 per cent cap on the council tax empty homes premium to allow local authorities to strengthen the incentive for owners of long-term empty properties to bring them back into use. This will require amendments to primary legislation. We will introduce the necessary legislation as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:48:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

857055

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Dorset
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130546, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evidence to which he has had regard of the extent to which the area as a whole is currently meeting its housing needs.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	131567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>I will place in the Library of the House a copy of the evidence to which the Secretary of State had regard, which is drawn from published data on net additional dwelling statistics available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-housing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-housing</a> and on the levels of housing need in area, available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-consultation-proposals" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-consultation-proposals</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:46:53 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857062

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government: Dorset
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130545 on Local Government: Dorset, whether the financial estimates to which he referred in his Answer have been adjusted since their production to take account of (a) changes in Government policy and (b) savings made between August 2016 and 8 January 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	131574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Whilst the financial estimates in the Dorset councils’ proposal have not been adjusted since their production, the representations received from councils, and which I have placed in the Library of the House, set out the councils’ views of the impact of changes in circumstances on the case for the unitary proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:47:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857063

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government: Dorset
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130265 on Local Government: Dorset, to what extent local consent changed among the (a) citizens of Christchurch and (b) their elected councillors between 7 November 2017 and 8 January 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	131575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The issue of consent is a matter for each council, and as I set out in my answer to Question UIN 130265, since 7 November two councils have withdrawn their opposition to the proposal. This means that across the whole of Dorset nearly 80 per cent of councillors are now in favour of the proposal.</p><p>As to the level of support for the Dorset unitary proposal from the citizens and elected councillors of Christchurch, this has shown no evidence of significant change.</p><p>The representative household survey which formed part of the public consultation undertaken by all nine Dorset councils in 2016 showed that across the whole area 65 per cent of the public support the proposal and there was an absolute majority of respondents to the open consultation questionnaire in support of the proposal. The same open questionnaire also showed that 57 per cent of respondents in Christchurch opposed the proposal. In the local advisory poll that Christchurch undertook in November and December 2017, 84 per cent of a 54 per cent turnout opposed the proposal – equivalent to 45 per cent of the electorate.</p><p>In Christchurch, in January 2017 eight councillors supported the proposal, and in January 2018 eight councillors made representations in support of the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:46:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857067

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Tax: Dorset
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 130267 on Council Tax: Dorset, when he plans to publish his decision on the latest date by which new unitary authorities in Dorset must equalise council tax over the whole of that unitary authority area; and if he will make his decision provisional and subject to consultation against criteria set out in his answer.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	131579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>All Dorset councils are currently working together to develop council tax harmonisation proposals through their Joint Committees and may make representations to the Secretary of State as to any approach they might wish him to take.</p><p>Thereafter the Secretary of State intends to bring forward before the Summer Recess secondary legislation on council tax harmonisation, having regard to local preference, and to the other matters indicated in my answer to Question UIN 130267 on 5 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:48:27 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857086

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2018 to Question 129890, and the Answers of 5 March 2018 to Questions 130263, 130547 and 130266, for what reason none of that material had been placed in the House of Commons Library as of 4pm on 7 March 2018; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	131598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The responses from Dorset councils referred to in Question UIN 129890 and Question UIN 130547 have been placed in the Library of the House. With regard to the material referred to in Question UIN 130263 and Question UIN 130266 my officials are checking the responses to ensure we do not disclose sensitive personal information and once that has been done, copies will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:50:21 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

855535

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment he has made of the proportion of households renting privately in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside and (c) the North East and (d) other areas of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	uin	130842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Data on households in the private rented sector in England and by region can be found on the Department's website. See ATs 1.1 and 1.2 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676433/2016-17_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676433/2016-17_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx</a></p><p>The Department does hold such data at local authority or constituency level.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 12/03/2018 16:11:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

856143

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on tackling homelessness.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	131309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>This Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. To achieve this we have taken a number of important actions such as implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act which commences in April 2018.</p><p>We have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce that will design and drive forward the implementation of a cross Government strategy to achieve our commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. Supporting the Taskforce is the expert Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel.</p><p>The Department has allocated over £1 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping through to 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 12/03/2018 16:12:24 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

856177

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Sleeping Rough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to reduce rough sleeping.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	131343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why this Government has committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. A new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce is bringing together relevant ministers from across Government, and will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to tackle this issue. They are being supported by an Advisory Panel made up of experts from local government and the homelessness sector.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 12/03/2018 16:24:54 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis